Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
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Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
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Rules emerge as a spontaneous order–they are found–not deliberately designed by one calculating mind. Initially constructivist institutions undergo evolutionary change adapting beyond the circumstances that gave them birth. What emerges is a form of 'social mind' that solves complex organization problems without conscious cognition.
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Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest; Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk. Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament; Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.
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I guess I've always had a similar-looking face.
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Too many entrepreneurs think their valuation is the real economic price of their company. It's not. It's not a real economic price unless you are selling 100%.
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Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.
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Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
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Shoes define how you walk in the world and how you stand: like, what is your posture in life?
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My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
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I'm not feeling much pressure for the Olympics because I think I already have done many things in my career. I will try to enjoy my second Olympics.
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When do we start feeling like the world belongs to us? I don't know. Tomorrow.
